"Joshua D. Drake" <j...@commandprompt.com> writes: > On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 12:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> I would like to propose aiming for a release around April/May 2010 ... >> "in time for PGCon" if you like, but the main point is to have it out >> before people start disappearing for summer break. We've already run >> into problems with scheduling the 8.4 release because of that.
> I generally agree with this however why not just have a "When it is > done?". Let's hit some commitfests and some time near the end of the > year start discussing Beta and release. > We are not a company. We don't have a deadline. Why can't we just > develop and say, "Yeah, this looks like it would make a substantive > release."? Well, then you might as well not have a schedule at all. The point of setting up a schedule is not to have a deadline that we must meet or die trying (and certainly not to ship whether it's ready or not, as a certain other OS database has been accused of doing). Rather, the point of this exercise is to give individual developers a framework to plan in. Without a target date it's tough to decide what is reasonable to work on for 8.5. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers